Take Steps to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer Date/Time: Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 4:00pm Location: Margie Edinger Room Presenter: Dr. Joseph Hastings, Board Certified Radiation Oncologist Learn about what you can do to lower your risk of developing certain cancers. Better awareness and early detection increase the chance of successful treatment.Free and Open to All …
Date: 5/24/2014 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Location: Central Park Library Redwood Room & Margie Edinger Room Interested in volunteering? Come to our volunteer fair and visit with over 30 non-profit organizations from across the Bay Area. Find a rewarding way to give back to the community and have fun at the same time. Treats …
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 7pm Join us for an exciting evening with author Jennifer Fosberry! Jennifer is a science geek turned New York Times bestselling children’s writer. Her picture books about a spunky little girl named Isabella and an adventurous little boy named Alexander have received rave reviews. Her latest, Isabella: Star of the …
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The Library is hosting the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, direct from the New Orleans French Quarter. Preservation Hall was founded in 1961 to nurture, perpetuate, and promote the traditional New Orleans jazz art form. The legendary players are long gone now, but the Hall is still in business and the Band continues to tour world-wide. …
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The Santa Clara Weekly recently wrote about several events from Summer Reading, Summer Reading Kicks Off covered the first event of Summer Reading, the kickoff with a bean bag toss and trampoline for kids to play on, heard Steve Cheney’s ventriloquism act, and sampled healthywaters from Kaiser Permanente. Foundation receives large gift in memory of Margie Edinger …
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Santa Clara author Tim Meyers spoke at the Santa Clara Central Park Library on May 19th about his latest book, “Down at the Dino Wash”, and Santa Clara Weekly wrote a very interesting article about it. You can see it here. Tim’s talk was sponsored by the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends.
Santa Clara artist and author Clarence Robert “Bob” Tower will be talking about how he published his charmingly illustrated historical fiction novel, The Adventures of Zach Gentry: a Tongue-in-Cheek History of the Opening of the West, using Amazon’s CreateSpace. Quoting from James Cox, Editor of the Midwest Book Review: “From witnessing the beginning of the …
The Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends partially funded a number of free events in the library for “Money Week”, including 4/21 “Personal Records Retention” at 1pm 4/21 “Elder Fraud and Scams” at 3pm 4/22 “Financial Literacy for Kids (K-2nd), 4pm-5pm”” 4/22 “Financial Literary for Kids (Grades 3rd-6th), 6:30pm-7:30pm” 4/23 “Financial Literary for Adults”, …
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Come celebrate with the authors of “In Our Own Words”, the book created by participants in the Adult Literary Program of the Santa Clara City Library, and hear them read some of their submissions. This event is open to the public, and activities for children will be provided. Dessert will be served following the program. …
What do these great magazines like Consumer Reports, Newsweek, and Cosmo have in common? They’re all now freely available on your computer or mobile device through the library’s electronic collection. These free digital copies can be accessed via Zinio Online Magazines. There are a couple of steps to the registration process, but once complete you are …
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